Mammalian development does not recapitulate suspected key transformations in the evolution of the mammalian middle ear
Héctor Ramirez-Chaves, Stephen Wroe, Lynne Selwood, Lyn Hinds, Chris Leigh, Daisuke Koyabu, Nikolay Kardjilov, Vera Weisbecker
This study challenges the idea that developmental processes recapitulate evolutionary changes in mammalian middle ear detachment by showing negative allometry occurs after detachment and positional changes are absent.
bioRxiv · Aug 7, 2015Evolutionary Biology